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Old Jan 14, 2016, 7:01 am
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stut
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The Norwegian sleeper trains are CNL-level, I'd say. There are brand new ones due to the Caledonian Sleeper routes in the UK (strictly speaking, there are three sleeper routes, with a total of 6 termini from London).

But it's not surprising there are massive cutbacks. These things are expensive to run - high staff-to-passenger ratio, particularly when you take signalling and station opening into account, and lots of idle time.

I do hope OEBB takes on some of the routes, as discussed.
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